Tetco pipeline expansions to benefit Marcellus, Utica shale plays

Expansions on the Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) natural gas pipeline, which runs through Ohio, will increase flows on that line by nearly 1 billion cubic feet per day by the end of 2017, according to Argus Media. The news service says the pipeline's Gulf Markets Expansion Phase 2, Access South, Adair Southwest and Lebanon Extension projects will add more takeaway capacity for natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, and “should alleviate what has become a bottleneck at the Berne, Ohio compressor station.” Argus says Tetco “opened the door to higher southward flows” of natural gas with the completion of its Gulf Markets expansion in August. For more, read the full story.